Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Bell Jr. was born on 10 December 1785, in Newton, Sussex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Robert Bell Sr., was 32 and his mother, Mary Yost, was 32. He married Elizabeth Lash on 11 June 1805, in Belmont, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 August 1861, in Bellville, Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bellville Cemetery, Bellville, Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio, United States.
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- Robert Bell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Robert Bell Jr., "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Robert Bell Jr, "Find A Grave Index"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1787 · New Jersey Plan
"Also referred to as the Small State Plan, the New Jersey Plan was an important piece of legislation that William Paterson presented during the Constitutional Convention. The plan was created because states with smaller populations were concerned about their representation in the United States government. The New Jersey plan proposed, among other things, that each state would have one equal vote. This was in contrast to the Virginia Plan, which suggested that appointment for Congress should be proportional to state population. The Connecticut Compromise merged the two plans, allowing for two ""houses"" of congress: one with proportional representation, and the other with equal power from each state (as the New Jersey Plan had suggested)."
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from the Middle English personal name Bell. As a man's name this is from Old French beu, bel ‘handsome’, which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isabel .
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from Middle English belle ‘bell’ (Old English belle), in various applications; most probably a metonymic occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker, or a topographic name for someone living ‘at the bell’ (as attested by 14th-century forms such as John atte Belle). This indicates either residence by an actual bell (e.g. a town's bell in a bell tower, centrally placed to summon meetings, sound the alarm, etc.) or ‘at the sign of the bell’, i.e. a house or inn sign (although surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in Scots and English).
English: from Middle English bel ‘fair, fine, good’ (Old French bel ‘beautiful, fair’). See also Beal 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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